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What does it mean to stay human as AI reshapes everything we know?
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EP 09Identity & Humanity
Building AI for Human Connection: Neil Gawande on Belonging, Perception, and Five Companies by 20
Neil Gawande started five companies by 20 — from a GPS tracker for seniors to The Block, a personal AI assistant he calls 'ClaudeBot for regular people.' A Still Human conversation about building AI for human connection, belonging as a computational problem, being a third culture kid who belongs nowhere, and what we quietly lose by building too fast.
EP 08AI & Technology
William Norden: Building Neural Networks from Scratch in C and What Most AI Engineers Skip
A Still Human conversation with William Norden — Research Engineer at Santa Clara University, neuromorphic computing researcher, and the rare builder who writes neural networks in C from scratch. We get into the intelligence augmentation argument, the high-dimensional tapestry of global problems, and why Russian piano pedagogy and USTA tennis show up in his backpropagation.
EP 07Entrepreneurship
Toby Corey: Zentrepreneurship, Tesla’s Fake Solar Roof, and Building Trust in AI
Toby Corey has been at the center of three tech waves — the dot-com boom (USWeb, $3B valuation), the clean energy transition (SolarCity, Tesla Energy), and now AI. He testified under oath that Tesla’s Solar Roof tiles were never connected to the grid, laid off 4,000+ people, and created Zentrepreneurship — a 21-principle framework for building companies with consciousness, taught at Stanford for 11 years. Now he’s building BrandCapsule: verifying identity in an AI world where hallucinations are the default.
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About Perkin Yang
Perkin is the founder of Oshen Studio — a studio at the intersection of AI, automation, and intentional storytelling. He builds AI-powered systems by day and tries to understand what they mean for us by night.
Still Human started from a simple frustration: most conversations about AI were either naively optimistic or catastrophically pessimistic. Neither felt honest. The podcast is Perkin’s attempt to find the more complicated, more human truth.
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Still Human goes to the people on the frontier — the founders, scientists, engineers, and researchers navigating this shift — and asks them one question: how do you stay whole?
I testified under oath that those Solar Roof tiles were never connected to the grid. That's the moment you find out what you're actually made of.
You can hold consciousness and execution at the same time. Most people think you have to choose. You don't.
AI's biggest blind spot isn't intelligence — it's trust. And trust is a human problem.